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MACHINE POR STRINGING SILK.. No. 373,486. Patented Nov. 22, 1887.

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MACHINE FOR STRINGiNG SILK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 373,486, dated November 22, 1887.

Application died June 2S, 1887. Serial No. 242,756. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN RYLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Paterson, Passaic county, State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Machines for Stringing Silk, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

It has been customary hitherto to string silk in the bunch or hank on a Xed Stringingbar by means of an additional pin or bar placed in the hands of the stringer to restore the silk by various acts of 'eontortion as twisting, wringing, and wrestingto the gloss the silk had before it was placed in the dyetub. Silk thus stringed in the bunch or hank is rendered more difficult to wind, as the movements above referred to on the fibers cause the delicate filaments of silk to interlock each other, causing breakage and its consequent waste of costly material.

The object of my present invention is to provide means for Stringing silk which shall possess the advantages of the twisting movements of the Stringer, but which shall be free from their objectionable features.

Vith this end in view my invention consists in certain features of construction and combination of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

Figure 1 of the drawings is an end elevation ofa stringingmachine. Fig. 2 is a part front elevation of the saine, in which figure a portion of the creel, rails, rods, bars, shafts, the., are removed; and Fig. 3 is a plan of the same, in which gnre the shafts, rails, dsc., are broken and the driving mechanism shown. Fig. 4 is an enlarged view of aportion ofthetransverse mechanism detached, part sectional.

A represents a machine for stringing silk in the single thread. On the rails d and d, that are supported by frames d2, fastened to bars J, secured to frame A, I arrange pins b and c. The pin b supports loosely a supply-bobbin, b, which bobbin is filled with unstringed silkfiber. The pin c supports looselyon it an idle or friction bobbin, c, down over and partly around which bobbin the ilamentpasses from thebobbin b up to a receiving-bobbin,h,andiswound on the said bobbin hafter beingstringed, as hereinafter stated. The pins b and c fixed in their respective rails d and d and placed at a suitable distance above one another, are arranged in different vertical planes, the pin b on a plane at the lefthand side of the pin c, which position of thc pins b and c' and the bobbins b and c supported thereon causes a crossing of the filament at r, as shown. The bobbin h, which is fixed on a spindle, h, journaled in bearings h3 in the upper part of the machine, 1s revolved at a rapid rat-e of speed by contact of the wheel portion ofthe spindles with afriction wheel, fixed on a shaft, e, journaled in bearings secured to frame A and rotated by shaft 7c and gears Z Z on said shaft e and shaft k, which latter is journaled in cani-bearings Z2, fastened to frame A. The bobbinh, which is in rotation, unwinds from the supply-bobbin b the unstringed filament or thread s', carrying the same downward over and partly around the bobbin c into frictional contact at r with the upward-moving portion a of the filament or thread, where, by the quickness of the speed of the filament and the tension to which it is subjected by the tensionarm a, pivoted to rail d and binding on bobbin b, the unstringed portion s' of the thread or filament is Stringed at r by its contact with the opposite upwardmoving portion s of the filament. The filament or thread s is wound on the length of receiving-bobbin 71, by traverse-bar g and guide g', moving on rollers g2 and connected to lever n by plates and bolts n' n2. Lever n is arranged on the eccentric portion ci of' stud el, and is slightlymoved up and down by the rotation of the stud in sleeve e8 by the shaft e5 to effect a crossing of the thread on the receivingbobbin h. The lever is moved outwardly by cam a5 and stud n thereon, and it receives its inward motion by weight a* on arm n3, fixed 0n lever n. The cam a5 is integral with gears el e3, the first of which gears with and is actuated by pinion e on shaft e and is ]'ourualed on stud et, fastened to frame di. Gearl e3 turns shaft e, journaled in bracket-bearings e, fastened to frame A', while the shaft e5 turns stud el, journaled in sleeve e8, fastened to frame A by bolts or otherwise.

By my invention silk is more perfectly stringed and restored to the silky appearance it had before dyeing than is possible when the IOO same is'stringed in the bunch or hank. Be-

sides, increased length of fibers is secured by' reason of the tension placed upon the same While being stringed in the single thread. The machine A may undergo various changes and machines of a different construction may be resorted to without changing the nature of my invention; hence I do not confine myself to machines of this particular construction. Slight changes may also be made in the position ofthe pins b c and bobbinsb and c thereon Without changing the nature of myinvention, as any position of the said bobbins and pins that would place a cross in the filament with reference to the bobbin h, as at 1', Would answer equally well.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent in a machine for Stringing' silk in the single thread, is-

The combination, with the -frame A', shaft e,

and Wheel h2 thereon, adapted to rotate the re-V ceiving-bobbin, the guide-bar g, lever n, and

mechanism for actuating saidlever, of the barst J, frame d, bar d3, rails d and d', having pins b and c', respectively, secured thereto in (lider-- JOHN RYLE.

Witnesses W ILLIAM RYLE, PETER RYLE. 

